Polar Summer

Mühlkeller: Held and Elefant

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Polar Summer is back with two new Videos

I know it has been a while since I last made a post. But that doesn’t mean that I didn’t have any shows. I had two in the past 4 months, one in October and the other in November. One was at Mühlkeller where a friend recorded “Held” and “Elefant” (check them out at the bottom of this post).

Another show at Mühlkeller: How a sinking mic left me unimpressed

I was at open stage night at Mühlkeller for the second time now. It was fun. Someone recorded it, which is why you can now watch it on Youtube. I really enjoy singing there. The atmosphere and the people are great. I can also recommend Mühlstraße e.V. ‘s other events. It is a unique location.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy the videos (bottom of this post). You will probably notice how the mic sank in “Elefant”. Well… when it comes to interrupting a song, I really don’t like to do it, especially as the cons definitely outweighed the pros in this case due to the small location. People could hear me perfectly. So I continued, probably to the technician’s amazement. But hey, that is what I learned in school. Whether it was performing in the choir, by myself in front of the class (playing the flute or singing) or on stage during a play, I learned it is the best thing to continue if possible. I am 100% sure if I had been on a large outdoor stage, I would have decided otherwise, but in that show it seemed like a good option. Comment if you agree or disagree.

What Elefant and Held are about and why I am doing this

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A move and other movements

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Leading a busy life is not really avoidable when you are studying full-time. Yet, it is a lot worse when you are moving as well. I think if there was a way to describe my life in the past 2 months it would be a list containing the following: Boxes, Sleep-deprived, exhausted, running around, did I mention BOXES?, finding new structures, IKEA (and there goes my money…) and last, but not least, starting a new exciting chapter.
With my life being even busier than usual (and it’s always busy…) it’s been hard to keep on track with music and writing. Also, I have been having a long period of writing poems and less music.

However, I am back now! Enough whining. There are still boxes unpacked, but there is a show coming up in LESS THAN TWO WEEKS (I had a tough minute when I noticed this two days ago) and I am eager to finish at least one or two songs until then.

Oh yeah, just in case you are interested, I spent so much time with IKEA furniture. I literally wanted to be part of that couch table.

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Start

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This is the start. Finally. I have been thinking about this for a while now. If something has kept me from it, it would be me. And just me. I can see that having talents or interests isn’t as much fun when you’re just by yourself and don’t share it. I would like to share whatever I am doing so that others can relate and maybe find answers. Also, I would like to find more answers.
Be prepared to listen to music and reading texts. They escape my mind after having formed and being nourished. When I have an idea there’s no way to not go after it.A lot of artist claim it started for them as a child. I guess that claim is also mine.

Wenn du bist

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Wenn du jung bist,
da willst du Liebe finden,
das Leben fühln
und nicht verschwinden.
Mit allen Farben und Facetten, in Löcher gehn, stehn auf Paletten,
und ob es geht oder nicht,
ob es steht, oder bricht.

Wenn du jung bist,
musst du alles fühlen,
Schmerz, Trauer, in Freude wühlen,
nur so kannst du das Wahre sehn,
siehst es stehn, siehst es gehn.

Wenn du jung bist,
musst du Liebe finden,
neues lernen, dich regen und winden
in den Schatten deiner selbst,
und sehn, was dir sehr gefällt.

Vieles musst ich heute, da ich jung bin.
Vieles muss ich, vieles will ich,
doch mit vielem bleibt mir keine Wahl.

So ist das, wenn man jung ist,
doch Liebe hab ich stets gefunden,
selbst in den dunkelsten Ecken dieser Erde
und egal, ob du auch alt bist,
solltest du, egal wo du bist,
sie halten, ganz fest.

 

Note: I wrote this poem on January 9th while riding my bike home at around 3AM. It was one of those moments where the feeling my life is giving me suddenly changed or I noticed that it had gone through a change. I had to stop and then wrote it. So one could say that I literally took a snapshot of my feelings and thoughts.

 

Here is a more literal than poetic translation:

When you are young
you’ll want to find love,
feel life
and not fade.
With all colours and facets,
walk into holes, stand upon paletts,
and if it works or doesn’t,
if it stands or breaks.

When you are young,
you’ll have to feel it all,
pain, grief, rummage in joy,
only by that you’ll be able to see the true things,
see it stand, see it go.

When you are young,
you’ll must find love,
learn new things,
stir and wind
in the shadows of yourself,
and see what you’ll like.

Many things I must today as I am young,
a lot I must, a lot I want,
yet, with much I have no choice.

That’s the way it is when you are young,
however, love I have always found,
even in the darkest corners of this earth,
it won’t matter if you are old,
you should, wherever you are,
hold it, really tight.